Musnad Ahmad 18107

Translation

✧ The Messenger of God ﷺ came upon me while I was kindling a fire under a cooking pot, and lice were falling onto my face – or he said: onto my eyebrows – and he said: ‘Do the vermin of your head bother you?’ He said: I said: ‘Yes.’ He said: ‘Then shave it, and fast three days, or feed six poor persons, or sacrifice an animal.’

Notes

• قَالَ أَيُّوبُ لَا أَدْرِي بِأَيَّتِهِنَّ بَدَأَ

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What scholars said about it

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• Ibn Ḥazm

  خبر كعب بن عجرة الصحيح فيما رواه ابن أبي ليلى والباقون روايتهم مضطربة موهومة فوجب ترك ما اضطرب فيه والرجوع إلى رواية عبد الرحمن التي لم تضطرب

  machine translationThe sound report of Kaʿb b. ʿUjrah is what Ibn Abī Laylā narrated, while the narrations of the others are unsettled (muḍṭarib) and mistaken. It is therefore obligatory to abandon what is unsettled in it and to return to the narration of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, which is not unsettled. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 18328

Narrators

1. 1
   Kaʿb b. ʿUjrah

   a well-known Companiond. 51 AH, or 52 AH, also said: 53 AH
   كَعْب بْن عُجْرَةصحابي مشهور
   عن
2. 2
   ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Abī Laylá

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 82 AH, or 83 AH, also said: 71 AH, which is a mistake
   عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي لَيْلَىثقة
   عن
3. 3
   Mujāhid b. Jabr al-Makhzūmī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), an imam in Quranic exegesis and in knowledge.d. 100 AH, or 101 AH, or 102 AH, or 103 AH, or 104 AH, or 107 AH
   مُجَاهِدٍثقة ، إمام في التفسير وفي العلم
   عن
4. 4
   Ayyūb al-Sakhtiyānī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), an authority (ḥujjah), one of the leading jurists and devout worshippersd. 130 AH, or 131 AH, or 132 AH, also said: 124 AH, also said: 125 AH, also said: 129 AH
   أَيُّوبُثقة ثبت حجة ، من كبار الفقهاء العباد
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Ismāʿīl

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 193 AH, or 194 AH
   إِسْمَاعِيلُثقة حافظ
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
   أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.